Shavuot, a Jewish holiday in which we stay up all night studying Torah and grappling w/ big questions, begins tonight! now’s a great time, esp for white Jews, to sit down and think about white supremacy - here’s a thread w/ some resources: (1/x)

First of all, if your impulse is to go straight to the “are white Jews white” question (for the record — yes, white Jews are white), you might learn from Eric L. Goldstein’s The Price of Whiteness or Karen Brodkin’s How Jews Became White Folks. (2/x)

Read through #JOCsCount and consider how your Jewish community might marginalize Jews of Color. Look into @JFREJ’s incredible campaigns & think about how you can support (especially materially)(3/x)

JVP’s Deadly Exchange campaign covers the exchange programs that bring American police officers, ICE, border patrol, and FBI agents together with soldiers, police, and border patrol from Israel - (4/x)

If you can, make the choice to share your material resources. @MNFreedomFund is getting some well-deserved attention today, and there’s a good chance that your community has a bail fund as well! there are also plenty of phenomenal local orgs (5/x)

White women! They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers is an incredible book about how white women were active participants in the American slave trade & brutalization of enslaved people. (7/x)

It challenges stereotypes of white women as victims or reluctant actors, reminding us how white women have historically benefitted & continue to benefit from white supremacy (8/x)

You can make a month-long commitment to thinking and writing daily about your relationship to whiteness with Layla F. Saad’s INCREDIBLE book, Me and White Supremacy, which you can purchase in physical form or get as a PDF online: https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/  (9/x)

Ask yourself hard questions: One I always return to is "how do I use my Jewishness to distance myself from my complicity in white supremacy & how can I turn this reflection into an impetus for action?" (10/x)

And yes, naming & engaging thoughtfully w/ your complicity in white supremacy is uncomfortable work! If you’d like to talk or process or think through changing understandings of whiteness or need some accountability, feel free to msg me! (11/x)

obviously, this thread isn't at all comprehensive - it's just a few things that I've personally learned a lot from. Please share other resources if you can/would like & chag sameach! (12/12)